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Observing our Koi carp fish after a slow start to the day and then taking our coloured lights down as it was now the end of the Christmas period. Some time in my office on my Little Paxton History project and then breaking off to collect Daniel and Stephen from Kimbolton School after their very-enjoyable holiday. Gadaffi seeking talks with President-elect Bush as the US Secretary Schultz calls for sanctions against chemical weapon countries. Japanese Emperor Hirohito dies after a 70-year reign.
Another morning where we slept in and had a reluctance to get up. I eventually did and had my tea in the conservatory as the dawn broke. The fish are still behaving a little oddly, feeding irregularly and ‘flashing’ on their sides against the bottom and side of the pool. They had been recently treated for parasites and so my theory is that they are trying to spawn. After breakfast, and attending to the ducks and doves, I got Diana to help me to take down our coloured lights from the balconies and put them away. Then to my office and a resumption of my history work. I spent most of the rest of the day ordering the format of my early chapters and digitising the figures for the Prehistoric section. I had to break off in mid-morning to go out with the rest of the family to collect Daniel and his friend Stephen from Kimbolton School, as they had arrived back from their holiday.
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After a sound night’s sleep and a little sunshine, the light rain fell and, after waiting for news of my computer, I left for Cambridge; buying a fiddle leaf fig plant and coconut seedling from a garden centre and collecting my computer from the Apple centre. After some time with colleagues overcoming a software problem, I came home for a late tea. The UN Security Council debate hears a Libyan complaint about the US shooting down two of their planes, mortgage rates rise to 13 ½% and Emperor Hirohito seems close to death.
Another sound night’s sleep and lay in this morning. We had a little sunshine at first but then the weather became misty and a light rain fell. I spent this morning in my office, waiting for my computer to be fixed and sorting out my files in the fire-file to create more space. I then had lunch and, this afternoon, I made off for Cambridge. My first stop was the garden centre south of the city where I bought a fine fiddle leaf fig plant and a coconut seedling. Then, on to the city to collect my computer from the Apple centre and then to struggle with Brian Will and Jeannie Rezelle to overcome the software problem that had been holding up my use of the machine. We won in the end (we think) and I brought the machine home with 4 MB but with no accelerator card.
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After a sound night’s sleep in our own bed, I took the girls for a trip to Willington garden centre for planting materials but did not find any tropical plants either there or later at the Eaton Socon garden centre, but I did give the girls lunch at ‘Kelly’s Kitchen’ on the way back. With my computer repair not due to be completed until tomorrow, I evaluated my printing quotations and read a wad of district council papers before leaving for parish council meetings. There is a mounting crisis over the US shooting down two unarmed Libyan warplanes and prosecutions are dropped against US Col Oliver North to avoid implicating US Presidents Reagan and Bush.
I slept well last night. There is nothing like one’s own bed for true sleep and relaxation! I had difficulty getting Diana up this morning to make the drinks and so she must have appreciated the return as well. Everyone was slow to breakfast and thereafter. In mid-morning, I took the girls for a trip to the Willington garden centre to buy some seed compost and planting trays as well as look for tropical plants. I did not find much there and found the staff a little inexperienced in plants for the warm conservatory. We took quite a while and so I gave the girls lunch at ‘Kelly’s Kitchen’ on the way back. I did not have much success at the Eaton Socon garden centre either. This afternoon, Debbie helped me to sew some bedding plant seeds and we also remove the Christmas tree which is always a sad end to the Christmas season.
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After calling room service for our morning drinks, and enjoying our bath and hotel restaurant breakfast, we left the Swiss Cottage Holiday Inn for Chelsea where we viewed the opening day of the Harrods sale before checking out a London garden centre and a garden ornament specialist, buying only a tatty banana plant. Home and then over to Cambridge to seek help with my computer problems and to collect our girls. A special Lockerbie air crash memorial service was televised in the US and the UK and, despite the officiating minister calling for justice not retaliation, news soon emerged of the US shooting down two Libyan fighter planes. More controversial plans are announced for hospitals to opt out of the National Health Service and to abolish Local Council Regional Health Authority involvement whilst offering tax incentives for private practice.
I was the first to awake this morning, calling down to room service for our mornin. g drinks. We enjoyed our privacy first and, after refreshment, took turns in the bath. Soon we were having breakfast in the restaurant and then we packed and set off from the Swiss Cottage Holiday Inn for Chelsea. We had planned to look at plants but first went to the opening day of the Harrods sale. It was not too crowded. There was a good China sale but they did not have any of the type that we wanted (again!). We saw some interesting furniture and were impressed with the local old colonial settees and chairs.
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